Indonesia minister quits over pilgrimage graft

Indonesia's religious affairs minister resigned Monday after being accused of misusing funds that were supposed to help Muslims go on pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.
The anti-corruption agency last week named Suryadharma Ali a suspect in its investigation into alleged graft in the organisation of the hajj, or pilgrimage, to Saudi Arabia in 2012-13.
The agency previously said it had detected suspicious transactions of around $20 million in a special hajj fund, which is a combination of government money and cash from people who plan to make the pilgrimage.
The allegations have caused outrage in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, where millions have paid in to the fund and must wait years as the annual quota of hajj pilgrims is strictly controlled, according to AFP.